A trap for young players using iOS and Quine app

#1

I have started using the Quine app to port my Central Street Archive TW to iOS and on the way change it to handle my wife’s archive of images (a simpler solution).

In making changes to TW code, I continually ran into errors that seemed implausible (ie. change one text string for another but TW flagged an error in the filter or displayed TW code instead of user data).

Eventually this was tracked down to the use of Smart Punctuation (ie quotes) by iOS. This is configurable, but by default is ON so that when typing quotes, instead of the simple " you get the curly double quotes that may look very professional in a written document but are not recognised by TW as double quotes.

You can configure the setting to OFF in the Keyboard preferences tool in iOS.

bobj

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#2

an open question, would there be a way (via plugin / core modification) to have the smart quotes parsed correctly or converted to standard double quotes automatically? especially with the recent interest in an official mobile app it may make sense to have something like that available (or even installed by default on mobile platforms?)